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Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet

Posted by timothy on from the other-than-that-how-was-the-parade dept.

hankaholic writes "I was checking into the latest progress of the Freenet project when I noticed a disturbing note on their homepage: 'Paypal has frozen the account we use to accept donations over the web, they refuse to give any reason other than "use of an anonymous proxy" [...] all of the projects subscriptions have been canceled which is a significant setback. Other means of accepting donations, including E-Gold, are still active.' Paypal is sending them a check for their remaining balance. The news update on the Freenet homepage also includes contact information for some people at Paypal."

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  1. Last Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    or is it?

  2. bashing paypal by marine_recon · · Score: -1, Troll

    now i will freely admit that i didnt RTFA but dont you think that paypal is getting more crud than they deserve? not a single person i have ever met has had a problem with paypal, and my own experience has been quite painless. mod me down if you wish, but thats the way i see it.

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  3. I've been saying it for a long time... by IchBinDasWalross · · Score: -1, Troll

    Back in May, I said in my a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www. peoplesprimary.com/?n=Ich">blog that Paypal was evil. They cancelled mine and forced me to use this EGold crap.

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  4. I said it back in May... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Paypal is evil.

  5. FASCIST MODS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go ahead an mod me down just because the fascist mods don't agree with me! I dare you to look at the truth.

  6. Re:Must have been considered a liability by Dever · · Score: -1, Troll
    " "One person's experience" does not constitute a habit. I have used Paypal for years -- since its inception -- transferred tens of thousands of dollars with it and never had a serious problem, and only a handful of minor ones (most during the first couple years)."

    slashdot hive statistics says: PayPal is only scamming 50% of its users!

    ;P

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  7. Re:Must have been considered a liability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Exactly. And, in the opinion of a lot of people here, the few major transgressions of PayPal are enough to warrant a strong mistrust. I wouldn't trust anyone else that did this either, as soon as I found out about them.

    And I've had more banks fuck with my money that Paypal ever has - guess that means I shouldn't trust banks anymore and start stuffing money into my mattress...Get real, dumbass.

  8. Re:Paypal has the right by br00tus · · Score: 0, Troll
    It is not a stretch at all to link Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Jose Padilla, and the legal statements that the Geneva convention does not have to be followed, that Jose Padilla, an American citizen, does not deserve a trial and can be detained indefinitely by the state if it so wishes to (destroying the Fifth Amendment write to habeas corpus ("nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"), and see a pattern of denying national and international rights to humans, and then on the other hand seeing rights given and extended ("intellectual property") to intangible legal entities.

    As far as why "they" hate "us" - considering myself as a worker, and the people ordering the attacks on Iraq (and Haiti, and sending "military aid" to Colombia and Israel and everywhere else) as members or flunkies of the idle class; and after looking at Abu Ghraib, the CIA role in overthrowing democratic Chile, El Mozote, the CIA role in overthrowing Mossadegah in Iran, the mining of Nicaragua's harbors, the Vietnam war, the "secret bombing" of Cambodia, the billions in arms to Israel, Colombia, the war in Iraq, the recent invasion of Haiti and so on and so forth, all while on the day Pat Tillman was killed him sahring the NY Times cover with a GI who came home from Iraq - on welfare...the US idle class elites making a class war on the workers at home and against the working people of the world abroad, I certainly find myself in the "they" category, and the parasitical idle class elite, and perhaps you, depending on your allegiance, in the "us" category. My "us" is with the working class, not the idle class, which is a synonym for US foreign policy which is barbaric, terroristic and monstrous, and which I am quite unfortunately financing through my tax dollars. My only satisfaction is knowing one day, like Louis XVI or Tsar Nicholas II, the Paris Hiltons of the world will get their comeuppance.